Isn't Facebook's entire valuation based on violating user privacy? The ad piece of the business probably pales in comparison to being able to "accidentally" expose thoroughly mined and indexed personal information. It is probably the same thing for Zygna, the world's highest grossing "GAME" company, slowly recycling Pavlov's finest experiments.
Don't like 3D, wait for the blu-ray. Added advantages, thousands of dollars saved on concessions.
What is it with projects having to complete change the way they do things when they decide to "clean up" the code? I understand the need to make your mark on a project, but this is like the Amarok rewrite disaster. I wonder if it is even possible to rewrite something while retaining the "core values." Looking at the latest flop of Hollywood remakes, it seems a universal issue.
Maybe as a society we are becoming less capable, living up to the society that was portrayed in Idiocracy....
That is the fundamental reason why nuclear energy is unsafe. You need things that work well in theory to work well in practice.
They don't, of course.
Wow. Just nuclear energy is unsafe? What about windmills with poorly designed brakes? What about solar panel manufacturing? I'm sure that they are using wheat glutten and pony poo.
Nothing is safe. so do you propose we all dig holes in the ground and bury ourselves? We've tried analysis paralysis and have nothing to show for it. Time to put some nukes online, get rid of the Coal / Gas / Diesel burners and fix the immediate climate issues. And no, I'm not talking about warming cooling changing. I'm talking about my desire to breath.
I also think that the inherit nature of engineers to "troubleshoot" the problem instead of switching to "survival" mode will be called out. I wonder how long it took the onsite teams to argue with management to determine that things were beyond recovery and that they needed to take "heroic" / destructive measure to prevent a disaster.
It is the same thing in IT projects - debug / rebuild... Or aircraft operations during instrument failures - debug instruments / put plane in fail-safe...
Many examples. Same conclusions, stop wasting time on debugging failures and get back to a "stable" state.
Now I need to go and re-read N-Space... Thanks.
I guess you forgot to RTFA...
The advisory was issued as a suggestion to people who may be looking to apply for jobs working with secret materials.
Whether it makes sense or not is immaterial. If you are walking along the street, and pick up a document marked secret and then share it with your friends, you have violated the "rules". It doesn't matter how you obtained the material, its how you handle it that matters.
If you feel a need to share these documents, then maybe working for the government is not the best career path for you. Yes it's a game, but its a voluntary game, and you know what you sign up for.
The funniest about all this is that most people with security clearance would have been able to access those cables anyway through the gov systems.
That is a bad assumption. Most materials are "Need to Know" regardless of the classification level. Someone working at the State Dept. does not have "free" access to DoD materials.
So the objection is not to the information itself, but to how it got onto that particular computer. This means (according to the above) that if a gov employee reads the nytimes or wikileaks or one of hundreds of other websites they must call their local security officer to have their computer wiped and the uninformation destroyed. Insanity.
The problem is that the US government has not declassified these documents yet [even though they are freely available]. This causes a "sticky" point in the process of applying for a new clearance / renewing an existing one, since technically viewing the leaked documents counts as a violation[viewing materials that you are not authorized for]. So it's not the US Government controlling peoples thoughts, it just a very draconian interpretation of a convoluted info sec policy.
They're both wrong, so we should abolish it. FDR used it in a case against 8 men (Ex parte Quirin). Bush used it against some 775 detainees at Guantanamo and unknown others. So, we can say that Bush is approximately 100-fold more in the wrong than FDR was.
What was the detainment of Japenese American done by FDR called? At least Bush didn't pull anything as racially motivated...
I think its because porch monkey usually refers to someone who doesn't have a job and has no real purpose in life, so they "hang" out on the porch all day.
And of course, we all know that black people don't want to work for a living, so the only thing porch monkey can refer to is a black person.
I wonder if referring to the curious george books would be considered racist? Carrying around a monkey on the back of a white person is obviously an allegory to white people paying for welfare....
Maybe pent up repression that W got all kind of satire, and O is untouchable?
Remember the good ole days, when there was a charismatic candidate that promised a new Washington, one that represents the people and not littered with lobbyists.
I guess GW really messed the country up...
Its not entirely the cops' fault. I think it is because traffic enforcement has moved away from "public safety" and more into a revenue stream.
"Aww, if you make me cry anymore, you'll fog up my helmet." -- "Visionaries" cartoon
